After spending about three years spinning its wheels in development limbo, Wanted 2 got a push in the right direction last fall, as Universal officially tapped the writers of the first film to start work on a new draft of the script for the sequel.

Wanted director Timur Bekmambetov has another big, crazy action-movie adaptation coming out this summer: the supernatural thriller/historical revisionist tale, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. While doing press for that film, Bekmambetov is naturally also fielding questions about the status of Wanted 2, and The Playlist took the opportunity to get a nice, juicy update on a lot of the points already discussed above, and then some.

“An unbelievable thing happened three weeks ago… Because we stopped, we didn’t know what to do for three or four years. Three weeks ago I came up with a great idea and I pitched this idea and everybody fell in love with it. And now I think we’re on track. Right now the writer is working on the script, and it will be shocking.”

“It’s a continuation of the story, with Wesley Gibson… Other people are dead, you know, we can’t bring them back. The story is the same character, same mythology, but it’s got a great twist.”

Adding to that description (which is, admittedly, still pretty vague), we have had previous word from Wanted 2 co-writer Derek Haas that the sequel would turn the mantra of the assassin’s guild known as The Fraternity (“Kill one, save a thousand”) on its head, and we could see some of the other fraternities – which appear in the source comic book by Kick-Ass creator Mark Millar.

James McAvoy as Wesley Gibson in 'Wanted'

As for what young wimp-turned-super-assassin Wesley Gibson (James McAvoy) has been up to since he basically wiped out his entire chapter of The Fraternity – or how that inverted mantra “Kill a thousand, save one” will come into play – or what “shocks” and “twists” Bekmambetov is envisioning, all remain to be seen. Though, we do expect to see more information trickle out, as the press tour for Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter continues.